| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 13226 |
| QUOTATION: | The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement—but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-born British novelist. the narrator, in Under Western Eyes, pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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